Thread: Any thoughts on this hone?

I know it's difficult with a pic like that, any educated guesses?

Hone Stone Straight Razor Sharpening Esher type - eBay (item 200547741539 end time Nov-28-10 22:22:30 PST)

I bought an unused Muller Thuringian for $85 from a member here a couple of years ago. Mine is an excellent hone, but I don't really like the look of that one. I know individual stones can vary, but that one doesn't look right and I'm not thrilled about the "sparkles" described as being visible in the hone.

Colors on those pictures completely wrong. Stone itself does looks like Miller Thuringian. Real color should be like this. And yes, "sparkles" it is piryt

any one have a web address on thes muller stones ?

Hones like this were sold for some time via manufactum.de

A german "honemeister" compared one to a vintage thuringian (he even compared microscopic slurry pictures) and stated, that they work exactly the same and they were sold out like immediately. I don´t have one, by the way. There are still new Müller hones available with that sticker, but I´ve heard that they look not as dark as the ones from manufactum and are said to be not as good as the manufactum ones, although still good. So, it could be something…

He stated also, that pyrit is nothing you have to care about. His stone had pyrit inclusions, too. It´s softer than steel.

Regards,
tok

The "Reep away oil" stones are € 26,50 (20 x 5 cm) at a straight razor webshop. I haven't tried one so I don't know what to expect from them.

I think calling these Escher type stones is wrong, not the same type of stones as Eschers and vintage Thuringians.

Originally Posted by Traskrom

Colors on those pictures completely wrong. Stone itself does looks like Miller Thuringian. Real color should be like this. And yes, "sparkles" it is piryt

The picture has a slight magenta cast.

FWIW, the stone in the picture comes in a box with stapled corners (you can see them if you enlarge the picture) whereas the modern ones come in a thin white paper wrapper secured with adhesive tape, so I guess it's quite an old stone.

I have used quite a few thuringians and some Eschers with the small sparkly inclusions - they have never affected honing in my experience.

Regards,
Neil

That's interesting, Neil, I didn't know there was a difference between new and old boxes.

Here's a review from a couple of years ago:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hone-...huringian.html

At that time they were going for a lot less than the opening bid in the auction linked above.

I was just discussing this in the chat... Here's a picture from the auction in case anyone is searching this later and the auction listing has been deleted: